Congress passed the ACA, therefore every member of Congress bears responsibility for the website's failure. If they thought it would be so terrible a law, they should have repealed it or amended it. Congress has had ample opportunity to do exactly that for the past couple of years, but they didn't do so.

incendi:Rep. Greg Harper: The president ultimately is responsible. While I think it's great that you're a team player and you're taking responsibility, it is the president's ultimate responsibility, correct?

Sebelius: Um... You clearly... Uh... Whatever. Yes he is the president. Yes he is responsible for government programs.

Yeah, that question got precisely the sort of answer it deserved.

One day, it will be illegal to criticize the great messiah. That way you and your ilk will not have to cry butt-hurt tears on numerous Fark threads.

It is also something you say to clearly insane people to keep them from realizing you just dissed them and then attack you with sharp objects. This is what she did.If I were interviewed by the batshiat insane members of the GOP I would find it harder to not call them out on their stupidity.

Alright, look, you've had your little dog and pony show for C-SPAN, but I'm leaving. This is absurd. I came, I answered all of your questions no matter how inane, poorly-researched or based on ancient fax jokes they were. I have taken responsibility for my role and was, yes, eventually compelled by your brilliant cross-examination to admit that Barack Obama is the President. I even had our staff prepare a document with important takeaways from this project so that we can improve large public system rollouts like this in the future. But you know what? I don't work for you, and I don't have to sit here listening to this nonsense. So, with all due respect: What. The fark. Ever.

kbronsito:Sometimes people use "whatever" not because they are wrong and are giving up but because the person they are having a discussion with is just too stupid to understand the arguments. I think this is one of those cases. She could have explained the nuance that the president is ultimately in charge of the government but doesn't micro-manage IT projects but that would have been a waste of everyone's time. Smart people already know... republicans either don't understand or will pretend they don't.

I know that when the sales team asks us why we are behind schedule that I think maybe they should stop interfering with new scope items on existing projects. But the CEO does not care about any of that, he delegates that stuff down.

lennavan:And who does the President answer to? Who does he work for? The American People that's who. So ultimately it's our fault, right?

You joke, but that's exactly the point that the GOP is trying to make. Everything that goes wrong because we voted for a black Democrat needs to be smeared in our faces to teach us a lesson. Come up with ideas that fix the problem or lead to a more effective solution? Why they hell would they? Companies holding onto massive amounts of cash profit during a recession while cutting employees and benefits? Why should they do their part to help the economy? That wouldn't teach us.

Seems like less of a "I am wrong, but dont want to admit it" than a "look, I've answered your question, and you keep asking the same damned question over and over again, so, yeah, whatever you want the answer to be. Happy? Now STFU."

Once again, looking to attack Obama as if he was personally responsible for coding the site.

Also: what the fark is with politicians and the constant search for "who bears ultimate responsibility" for things? Is that all politics is: looking for someone to blame? As opposed to, you know, just farking fixing shiat and moving on.

kbronsito:Sometimes people use "whatever" not because they are wrong and are giving up but because the person they are having a discussion with is just too stupid to understand the arguments. I think this is one of those cases.

Point of order: "whatever" is the response you use when you're giving up on arguing, but whether it means you've lost, or they've lost and they're too dumb or willfully blind to realize it, needs to be gauged on a case-by-case basis. I agree in this case it's the latter.

Science has proven the Party of Personal Responsibility lacks the capacity to understand the phrase "I am responsible". It's like when you ask a kid with brain damage what he calls a black-and-white striped horse, and the kid says "Ebra." He's incapable of understand he's wrong, because the kind of damage he's got basically creates a world in his perceptions where "Z" doesn't exist, can't exist.

This will not be the last time a parallel is drawn between the GOP and brain-damaged children.

Subby, "Whatever" is also used when you realize that NO amount of reality based dialogue will convince the retard that's asking stupid questions that the answer you are giving is actually 100% fact based.

IN other words, she used it exactly right. She knew she was dealing with King Dumbass of Derp Mountain, and was done talking to his completely useless ass...

Mikey1969:Subby, "Whatever" is also used when you realize that NO amount of reality based dialogue will convince the retard that's asking stupid questions that the answer you are giving is actually 100% fact based.

IN other words, she used it exactly right. She knew she was dealing with King Dumbass of Derp Mountain, and was done talking to his completely useless ass...

But don't you get it? The Representative was technically right, and therefore Ted Cruz is now president, Sara Palin is the first lady, Reagan is all four heads on Mount Rushmore and 0bangbus is the guy who cleans out the hippo tank at the Nairobi Zoo.

Don't you understand? Nothing is the fault of Republican Senators. EVER. Everything is Obama's fault.

Funny, since the current president is still blaming Bush for many of his woes.

And it's entirely accurate.

What's really funny is the number of Republicans that think economic and policy issues revolve in 4-year cycles that perfectly coincide with election years.

/The Great Depression? Ended when FDR was elected. Everything else he did had nothing to do with it.//World War II? Don't listen to your grandpapa, it ended the day Truman was elected. Truman didn't have to make any hard decisions at all.///The 2008 Recession? Ended immediately on January 20, 2009, only to be replaced immediately with 1000 years of darkness.

Don't you understand? Nothing is the fault of Republican Senators. EVER. Everything is Obama's fault.

Funny, since the current president is still blaming Bush for many of his woes.

And it's entirely accurate.

What's really funny is the number of Republicans that think economic and policy issues revolve in 4-year cycles that perfectly coincide with election years.

/The Great Depression? Ended when FDR was elected. Everything else he did had nothing to do with it.//World War II? Don't listen to your grandpapa, it ended the day Truman was elected. Truman didn't have to make any hard decisions at all.///The 2008 Recession? Ended immediately on January 20, 2009, only to be replaced immediately with 1000 years of darkness.

When government takeover of healthcare goes wrong, people got a right to ask who is responsible for the snafu. And people got a right to expect more from their government than valley-girl sass as a response.

ikanreed:"Whatever" is also a way of addressing people who won't shut up with the same point over and over again.

"The earth is 15 years old""... I'm older than 15""The earth is 15 years old anyways""...There's not even the remotest reason to believe that""Ha, but I know that the earth is 15 years old, so there""Whatever. I'm going to go talk to someone without serious debilitating mental illness"

SkinnyHead:When government takeover of healthcare goes wrong, people got a right to ask who is responsible for the snafu. And people got a right to expect more from their government than valley-girl sass as a response.

joonyer:Cletus C.: HotWingConspiracy: That was her letting him save a little face, she was being nice. He's just lucky it wasn't Warren.

I would think they'd love to have Warren on the ropes like that.

That wasn't "on the ropes". It was "I'm dumber for having this exchange with you". Much how I feel about this post.

Oh, questions designed to get her to put the blame on the president? No, that wasn't "on the ropes." Just partisan b.s. The whole thing about having to account for the ACA launch failures was the on the ropes part.

If she had straight out mooned him, she would have given the questioner more respect than was due, given the context and the questions. This woman needs to be back at the office fixing this stuff, not farking around with politics.

SkinnyHead:When government takeover of healthcare goes wrong, people got a right to ask who is responsible for the snafu. And people got a right to expect more from their government than valley-girl sass as a response.

Why don't you go ahead and call us when the government takes over health care and not something completely different like say, insurance. K?